Jakob Axel Stael von Holstein

Jakob Axel Stael von Holstein (1665-) was a gentleman of Prussia.

Biography
Jakob Axel Stael von Holstein was born in 1665 in Vilnius, Lithuania, in Poland-Lithuania to a family of Baltic Germans. Stael was something of a blade, and was recruited by Prussia as an agent of their technological advance efforts. He moved to Cracow in southern Poland, where he studied at the college and aided in the research there.